Ferdinand Albin Pax

Ferdinand Albin Pax (born July 26, 1858 in Königinhof , Bohemia , † March 1, 1942 in Breslau ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Pax ". He is the father of the zoologist Ferdinand Albert Pax (1885–1964).

Life

Pax studied at the University of Breslau , where he received his doctorate under Heinrich Göppert in 1882 . In 1883 he became Adolf Engler's assistant at the University of Kiel . He followed this in the same year to the University of Breslau, where he completed his habilitation in 1886. From 1889 to 1893 he was curator at the Botanical Garden in Berlin , then until 1926 Professor of Botany at the University of Breslau and Director of the Botanical Garden in Breslau. For the 1st and 2nd edition of the standard work The Natural Plant Families by Engler and Prantl , he edited several plant families; together with Käthe Hoffmann , these were Amaryllidaceae (1930), Euphorbiaceae , Callitrichaceae (1931), Aizoaceae , Portulaceae , Dysphaniaceae , Caryophyllaceae (1934) and Capparidaceae , Tovariaceae (1936) for the 2nd edition . He also contributed parts to the work Die Vegetation der Erde by Engler and Drude , as well as to The Plant Kingdom (1902) by Engler.

Between 1923 and 1926 Pax was president of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture . In 1890 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Honors

The plant genus Paxia Gilg from the Connaraceae family (becomes Rourea today was named after him. The genera Neopaxia Ö.Nilsson from the family of montiaceae (Montiaceae) Paxiodendron Engl. From the family of monimiaceae (Monimiaceae) Paxiuscula Herter from the family of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) and the fungal genus Paxina Kuntze has been named in his honor.

Fonts (selection)

• Contributions to the morphology and systematics of the Cyperaceae , Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1886,
• Monographic overview of the species of the genus Primula, 1888,
• General morphology of plants with special consideration of the flower morphology , 1890,
• Prantl's textbook of botany (and Karl Anton Eugen Prantl), W. Engelmann, Leipzig, 1894, 1900, 1904,
• Main features of the plant distribution in the Carpathians Volume I, 1898
• Euphorbiaceae-Alcalypheae-Chrozophorinae ... with the participation of Käthe Hoffmann, Leipzig, 1900, 1912,
• Fossil insects. Annual report for 1906 .
• Main features of the plant distribution in the Carpathians Volume II, 1908
• Euphorbiaceae-Jatropheae / by F. Pax. , W. Engelmann, Leipzig, 1910,
• Cultivated plants and domestic animals in their transition from Asia, to Greece and Italy as well as to the rest of Europe; , and Hehn Victor, Borntræger Brothers, Berlin, 1911.
• Euphorbiaceae-Acalypheae-Mercurialinae , W. Engelmann, Leipzig and Berlin, 1914
• Silesian flora , 1915
• Plant geography of Poland (Congress Poland): in its main features , Dietrich Reimer (Ernest Vohsen), Berlin, 1918
• Euphorbiaceae-Alcalypheae-Plukenetiinae. Euphorbiaceae-Acalypheae-Epiprininae. Euphorbiaceae-Acalypheae-Ricininae , W. Engelmann, Leipzig, 1919,
• Plant geography of Romania , E. Karras, Halle, 1919
• Euphorbiaceae-Phyllanthoideae-Phyllantheae , W. Engelmann, Leipzig, 1922.

literature

• Brigitte Hoppe:  Pax, Ferdinand Albin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 144 ( digitized version ).
• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Web links

Wikisource: Ferdinand Albin Pax  - Sources and full texts

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Ferdinand Albin Pax at the IPNI

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see entry in the membership directory of the Leopoldina
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names - extended edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .